This year's 13th annual Seth Ernst Memorial Soccer Slam would like to let you know that this is a fundraiser for all Club, Youth, and GHS soccer players as well as area charities. We invite you to share the information below and put together teams. There are so many reasons why. Here are a few:1. Promote the love of soccer and sportsmanship - the goal of this unique indoor tournament.2. The proceeds pay for Richmond Hill field and equipment maintenance, IYSA fees, coaches' clinics, and money for each GSC team to spend on a tournament.3. No Player Left Behind is funded through Seth Ernst proceeds to assist families in need so their children may play rec or travel soccer.4. A GHS endowment has been established from this tournament to assist at least four GHS seniors with $1,000 scholarships every year.The future of soccer is strong, so please consider forming teams to play and look for all of our volunteering possibilities in a future email.

As has always been the case, No practices are allowed on 3 specific fields at Richmond Hill, at any time. They are, Field 1, Field 5, or Field 6 at Richmond Hill. Those fields are for actual games on Saturday for REC, and Saturday/Sunday for Travel. At no other time should anyone be on those fields.

If 1 team practices on those fields, everyone else feels they can use the field as well. We have very limited game fields, and we are trying to keep them in the best condition for all teams on game days.

Practices are allowed everywhere else at RH. This applies to all teams in the GSC soccer program. Please don’t make the board come find you, and ask you leave the field, and find another place to practice.

There are places not being used, on the sled hill, Culver Valley, and all around the ball diamonds at RH.

We get it, the fields are a great place to practice on, they are the right size, they look nice, a guy comes and mows and stripes it every week, but it if all teams that played on those fields practiced on them as well, they would be in no condition to use on game days. There are 9 teams that are the right age for Field 1. 13 teams for Field 5, and 11 teams for Field 6.

We play sometimes 6-7 games on some of those fields on Saturday, and 4 more games on Sunday.

The fields all need to recover during the week. There is a lot of space in Richmond Hill, and other places around town to get this done.

This is not the first year this has been an issue.

So to be clear once again. There are NO TEAMS allowed on these fields.

This rule includes scrimmages arranged with other teams and even out of town teams.

Anything not officially arranged with the board in advance, is NOT ALLOWED.

We have not allowed any team an exception to these rules over the past 2 seasons.